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Music brings people together, and IAML membership supports our aim to make music internationally accessible through acquisition and lending, preservation and digitization, cataloguing and bibliography, and documentation and research. Moreover, most music librarians and archivists serve as educators, opening up the vast world of information and repertoire during their daily interactions with students, faculty members, researchers, musicians, and the general public. We work internationally on multiple fronts to promote and protect musical heritage among diverse cultures, because the importance of music in the lives of the world's peoples is something we truly cherish. |
Dear Colleagues,
The IAML mid-year Board meeting will take place in Gothenburg 1-2 March. As a IAML member you are cordially invited to contact me regarding any issues you feel should be on the Board's agenda. Input from the membership is always welcome!
We eagerly anticipate this year's annual conference in Vienna, Austria with an opening ceremony at City Hall, sessions on the campus of Vienna University, and a farewell dinner at Palais Ferstel.
Interessenten für einen beruflichen Aufenthalt in Musikbibliotheken und -sammlungen des In- und Auslandes erhalten auf der neu eingerichteten Webseite “Job Swapping” im Bereich “Ausbildung” nützliche Informationen zur Vorbereitung eines solchen Vorhabens und das Angebot einer “Tauschbörse” in Form von Inseraten “Biete/Suche”.
Die AIBM-Fortbildungskommission möchte damit – die Möglichkeiten der zunehmenden Internationalisierung nutzend – das Lifelong Learning International für Musikbibliothekare fördern.
Michael Fingerhut informed us:
According to Norman Lebrecht, the country house of George Enescu and his documents in the Enescu Museum in Bucharest are falling into dereliction (the house is even scheduled for demolition).
It is quite curious, since the museum appears to be included in the European Heritage List.
Quite sad indeed.
The Music Department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France has just incorporated the information from its old card catalogue (authors/composers/anonymous) into the online general catalogue http://catalogue.bnf.fr.
This covers holdings entered into the catalogues of the library from the sixteenth century through 1991, when the card catalogue was closed.
Update from Laurence Decobert:
